Thursday, May 08, 2008

Thieves Fall Out

Planet Gore on National Review Online
Today’s E&E Daily (subscription required) has a hilarious apologia, “Sponsors lower expectations for Lieberman-Warner bill,” offering a walk-through of the phenomenon afflicting our crusaders. Here as in pretty much every country in the world (posturing notwithstanding), global warming is such a grave threat that other people need to “do something.” Given the inescapable price tag, lawmakers looked and discovered that anything they propose would actually be doing nothing — besides harming state economies. And if forced to choose, it seems they would prefer it be other states' economies that are harmed.

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